Prostomatea
{{Short description|Class of single-celled organisms}}
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| image = 20090315_1800_Coleps.jpg
| image_caption = Coleps
| taxon = Prostomatea
| subdivision_ranks = Orders
| subdivision_ref = {{cite WoRMS |author=WoRMS |year=2024 |title=Prostomatea |id=425487 |access-date=27 April 2024}}
| subdivision = *Prorodontida
}}
Prostomatea is a class of ciliates.{{cite journal |vauthors=Kim JS, Jeong HJ, Lynn DH, Park JY, Lim YW, Shin W |title=Balanion masanensis n. sp. (Ciliophora: Prostomatea) from the coastal waters of Korea: morphology and small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequence |journal=Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology |volume=54 |issue=6 |pages=482–94 |year=2007 |pmid=18070326 |doi=10.1111/j.1550-7408.2007.00290.x|s2cid=4647139 }} It includes the genera Coleps{{cite journal |vauthors=Rudberg P, Sand O |title=Bistable membrane potential of the ciliate Coleps hirtus |journal=The Journal of Experimental Biology |volume=203 |issue=Pt 4 |pages=757–64 |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1242/jeb.203.4.757 |pmid=10648217 |url=http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=10648217|url-access=subscription }} and Pelagothrix.
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Further reading
{{cite journal|last1=Zhang|first1=Qianqian|last2=Yi|first2=Zhenzhen|last3=Fan|first3=Xinpeng|last4=Warren|first4=Alan|title=Further insights into the phylogeny of two ciliate classes Nassophorea and Prostomatea (Protista, Ciliophora)|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|date=January 2014|volume=70|pages=162–170|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.015|pmid=24075983|url=http://ir.yic.ac.cn/handle/133337/7030|url-access=subscription}}
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